In connection with the increase in the incidence of COVID-19 and reports received by the Ministry of Health about the refusal of medical institutions to hospitalize patients with suspected coronavirus infection due to the lack of "COVID-19 wards", the Minister of Health, Prof. Asena Serbezova, sent a letter to the directors of the regional health inspections in the country. 

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In the letter, the Minister of Health orders the directors of the RZI as a matter of urgency to inform all medical facilities and emergency medical care centers in the relevant area that the hospitals are obliged to maintain readiness for admission and treatment of patients with primary or accompanying coronavirus infection.

In the medical institutions, there must also be designated places (isolators with rooms with beds) in which to treat patients in conditions of isolation.

The treatment of patients with COVID-19 should be carried out within the existing structures in accordance with the clinical manifestations of the patient (in pneumology and phthisiology, cardiology, internal diseases, nervous diseases, endocrinology, pediatrics, neonatology, children's pneumology and phthisiology, infectious diseases and others.),

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Minister Serbezova notes that the so-called

"COVID wards" are spatially secured places in medical facilities where patients are treated in conditions of isolation, and not wards of only one medical specialty.

They apply a multidisciplinary approach, since the clinical course of the coronavirus infection can be both very mild and with the development of a severe clinical picture - pneumonia, exacerbation of existing chronic diseases or the development of critical, life-threatening complications affecting various organs and systems in the human body.

Given the increasing number of cases of COVID-19 in the country, it is necessary for each medical facility to introduce strict controls to prevent the occurrence of nosocomial infections, and the staff must observe standard precautions (hand hygiene and use of personal protective equipment).

In the letter, the health minister emphasizes that attention should also be paid to the access of visitors and other persons to the territory of the hospital, by introducing requirements regarding the length of their stay, wearing a protective face mask, etc.

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